RChain Platform Architecture

Abstract

RChain’s platform architecture is a decentralized, economically sustainable public compute infrastructure. The platform design results from the inspirations of earlier blockchains and builds on top of the shoulders of giants in the disciplines of mathematics and programming language design.

Intended audience: This document is written primarily for software designers and developers who want to help see this vision realized, and for others who want to support these efforts.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Comparison of Blockchains
• Architecture Overview
• Requirements
• Architectural Approach
• Pseudonymous Identity and Cryptography
• Blockchain Data
  • Data Semantics
  • Data Storage
  • Addresses and Sharding/Compositionality
  • Namespace Definition and Policy
  • Contract Ownership, Transactions, and Messages
  • Rate-limiting Mechanism
  • Tokens
• Contracts
  • Contract Execution Model, Rholang, and RhoVM
  • Concurrency Requirements
  • Mobile Process Calculi
  • Rho-calculus
  • Rholang
  • RhoVM
  • Formal Specification
  • Model Checking, Theorem Proving, and Composition of Contracts
  • Discovery Service
  • Validation and Casper Consensus Protocol
• P2P Node Communications
• SpecialK: Data & Continuation Access, Cache
• Content Delivery Network
• Attention & Reputation Economy
• Applications
• Contract Development & Deployment
• Governance
• Implementation Roadmap
• Call for Participation